The maintenance operation is over, we gathered all the data and files and made the necessary updates to be able to setup the failover. Work continues, but in background: you can enjoy playing again! Have fun!

djabwana wrote:As a software engineer myself, I'm curious what the new database is vs. the old. Did you go from a more traditional SQL database to something different, if you don't mind sharing?

This maintenance consisted in a version upgrade and data preparation to setup a replicated failover database. Before, we had backups but no failover, and restoring from backups with the size of the database would have meant a really big downtime in case of a database crash.

With a replicated failover, it should be a matter of minutes. We are currently working on finishing to set it up. This will still take time, but it's a background task that should have no impact on the service.